Close to them now towered the range known as the Kini-Balu among the wild recesses of which the tribe of that name made its home.
Indicated on the map in red letters, at a spot in the heart of the Kini-Balu country, was a place marked "Cave.
From what Salloo said the Kini-Balu men are a very war-like tribe.
The natives he had been talking to knew the Kini-Balu Mountains well and told him, after he had described the cave they were looking for, that it was a very bad place.
Kini-Balu men head hunters," he said, "Maybe they no hurt us.
One time 'Bully' Bloom he helpee Kini-Balu men fight big battle 'gainst Tariani tribe.
After more discussion, it was decided to advance cautiously into the Kini-Balu country and then do some scouting to see how matters lay.
It is probable that the Chinese colony in North Borneo which gave its name to the lofty mountain Kina Balu (Chinese widow) and to the Kina Batangan, the chief river which flows from it, was founded about this time.
Dusuns living on the slopes of Mount Kina Balu tatu no more than the parallel transverse stripes on the forearm, but in this case no reference is made to the significance of the stripes as a head-tally.
He or she who holds it at that moment is then dubbed ABAN LALU or BALU DOH (=widower Lalu or widow Doh).
The natives regard Kina Balu with awe and veneration as the home of departed spirits, believing that it exercises a powerful influence on their lives.
When a man is dying they speak of him as ascending Kina Balu and in times of drought they formerly practised a curious and horrible custom, known as sumunguping, which the authorities have now suppressed.
The Balu stream flows out of the Inle lake, and is navigable from that point to close on Lawpita, where it sinks into the ground in a marsh or succession of funnel holes.
The first of these two divisions is the southern portion of the valley of the Hpilu, or Balu stream, an open, fairly level plain, well watered and in some parts swampy.
West of the Balu valley the continuation of the eastern rim of the Myelat plateau rises in Loi Nangpa to about 5000 ft.
He had hoped to see his balu wax sturdy and strong.
There in full sight now was Sheeta, the panther, stalking slowly toward the tiny, wriggling balu which lay among the grasses many yards away.
Here was a balu fashioned as he himself was fashioned.
His heritage of English blood rendered it a difficult thing even to consider a surrender of his project, though he was forced to admit to himself that his balu was not all that he had hoped.
When the ape-man hunted, he must carry Go-bu-balu about with him.
It was Teeka's balu and Tarzan had once lavished his young affections upon Teeka.
The discarded piece of his former one he gave to Gazan for a plaything, for Tarzan had it in his mind to instruct Teeka's balu after ideas of his own when the youngster should be old and strong enough to profit by his precepts.
Even now he and Tarzan could converse in a fairly satisfactory manner by supplementing the meager ape speech with signs; but for the most part, Go-bu-balu was silent other than to answer questions put to him.
As the two hunted, or rather as Tarzan hunted and Go-bu-balu tagged along in his wake, the ape-man noticed many things and thought much.
Teeka, seeing that Tarzan had turned back toward the trees, had halted in the center of the clearing, and there she sat hugging her balu and casting suspicious glances here and there.
Toog, having satisfied himself that only the she and her balu were in the immediate vicinity, crept stealthily forward.
It was pitiful that a balu of his size and strength should be so backward.
When I was a little balumy skin, I presume, looked very white indeed against the beautiful, black coat of Kala, my foster mother and so they called me Tarzan, the Tarmangani.
Some peculiar Australian forms have been found represented on the summit of Kini Balu in Borneo.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "balu" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
